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| The Well-Tempered Synthesizer | 
 enlarge | Artist: Wendy Carlos
Label: East Side Digital
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 47829
Format: Enhanced, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 618161
UPC: 021561816121
EAN: 0021561816121
ASIN: B00005OKS2
Release Date: October 2, 2001
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 first crush April 2, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I remember listening to this when I was 4 years old and living in Chicago Ill. in 1973. I would drive my family crazy on Sunday afternoons playing this and Switched on Bach. This is what got me into classical music and it reminds me of the first girl I had a crush on in Kindergarten. My parents bought this for my and my older brothers to get us interested in music, well it worked for me the first time I heard this wonderful album. The first 5 pieces are very romantic sounding and the very last piece on the album is hauntingly beautiful. It has that late sixties early seventies sound to it. True artistic expression that Wendy Carlos uses in this.
A long time coming to CD February 1, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm by no means well-versed in classical music, but this album served as an peppy invitation to me as a child. My parents did not expose me to music in the form of, say, piano lessons, but my father did bring home demo albums of all types from the radio station he worked for. I wore out his copy of "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer," ran off with it to college and, over 20 years later, I still have that scuffed and skipping copy today. I waited a long, long time for this to be distributed on CD, and prayers were answered first with the Switched-On Box Set. A much different feel than the Bach albums, this work is my hands-down favorite. If you prefer D. Scarlatti to Wagner, you will love it. Please try it.
Carlos's best album? June 26, 2002
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This was Wendy's second album released around 1970. The readings of the Scarlatti and Handel are very well done with good tempos and bright arrangements. The Monteverdi is also an amazing piece of early synthesizer work. Perhaps the crown work on this album is Bach's 4th Brandenburg Concerto, which Glenn Gould once called the the most perfect interpretation.
 Under the Hill Right Now... April 27, 2002
4 out of 26 found this review helpful
I would just say, of Wendy Carlos' new record album, "Well Tempered Synthesizer," that it is the most wonderful of all recordings that have ever inferred synthesized, phonyness of a degree that even Charles could not conflagrate in his holocaust of soundmaking. Bottoms up to Wendy Carlos.
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